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University of Illinois Press
9780252088759
Pub Date: 7/8/2025
$28.00
Discount Code: UIP TEXT & LIBRARY EDITION
Paperback
216 Pages
12 black & white photographs, 4 tables
Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science
Series: The History of Media and Communication
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9780252046650 - $110.00 Hardcover
A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive
Jimi Jones, Marek Jancovic
Offers an in-depth look at the social processes and material challenges of developing digital video standards Provides a detailed, on-the-ground perspective of archival work, capturing the creative solutions archivists devise amid technological, financial and ethical challenges
Makes visible the changing character of present-day archival labor, and with it the larger struggles for social legitimacy: Who counts as a professional archivist? What does digital archiving even mean? Should access to standards be free?
Summary
A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for future generations. Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic document the development and adoption of JPEG 2000, FFV1, MXF, and Matroska while investigating the social and material aspects of their design and the forces driving their journeys from niche to ubiquity.
Drawing on interviews with archivists and developers, Jones and Jancovic reveal the archive as a dynamic space where deeply entrenched social practices produce disagreements but also resourceful collaborations. They contrast the unprecedented rise of archivist-driven standardization and controversies around non-standard technology with the historical dominance of the film and broadcast industries. Throughout, the authors clarify the role of tech companies, software developers, film pirates, hackers, and other players with poorly understood roles in the process.
A timely look at the state of audiovisual preservation, The Future of Memory provides a history of recent innovations alongside a snapshot of a field in the midst of profound technological change.
Contributor Bio
Jimi Jones is an adjunct lecturer of library and information sciences for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Marek Jancovic is an assistant professor of media studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression: Reading Traces of Decay
University of Illinois Press
9780252089046
Pub Date: 12/23/2025
$28.00
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Paperback
224 Pages
29 black & white photographs, 5 tables
Business & Economics / Industries Series: The Geopolitics of Information
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9780252046926 - $110.00 Hardcover
Translating Chinese Mobile Technology in Africa
Miao Lu
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The Transsion Approach draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in China and Ghana, presenting nuances and tensions about China-Africa engagement, technology transfer, infrastructure on everyday life, and globalization from below
Summary
How do we explain China’s tech rise in Africa? As Africa’s top phone seller, the Shenzhen-based company Transsion has profoundly shaped the continent’s digital transformation by providing affordable yet feature-rich mobile phones for the economically disadvantaged. Miao Lu draws on rich fieldwork in China and Ghana to delve into the company’s operations and growing influence. Critiquing technology transfer, Lu focuses on design, marketing, and repair to illustrate the multi-layered technology translations between China and Ghana. Borrowing the metaphor of deep ploughing, Lu examines the rural-centric and lower-class–oriented approach of translating mobile technology. Transsion challenges the cultural imagination of big tech. But the company is also evolving into a regional power that’s adept at marginalizing small players and increasing local dependence. Lu’s analysis explores the complexity that Shenzhen can act as Silicon Valley’s “South” and Africa’s “North” simultaneously. The middle space created by Transsion bridges globalization from above and below, which opens the door to new possibilities and inequalities.
Contributor Bio
Miao Lu is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088773
Pub Date: 7/8/2025
$30.00
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288 Pages
1 chart, 4 tables
Business & Economics / Industries
Series: Geopolitics of Information
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9780252046674 - $110.00 Hardcover
Making Brazil's Marco Civil
Guy T. Hoskins
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Tells the remarkable story of how Brazil became the first country in the world to create a bill of civil rights for the internet by recounting the dramatic journey of the 'Marco Civil da Internet' from its inception within the Brazilian tech community, passage through the Brazilian Congress, to its culmination in a geopolitical tug-of-war in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations Seeks to understand how the bill of digital rights was contested at the periphery of digital capitalism and how it fell short of its lofty goals and the lessons we can learn to secure a better digital future
Summary
Signed into law in 2014, the Marco Civil da Internet (Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet) appeared to offer pioneering legislation for a digital bill of rights that addressed issues like network neutrality and privacy. Guy T. Hoskins chronicles the Marco Civil’s development and its failure to confront the greatest concentration of power in the digital age: informational capitalism. Combining interviews with discourse and political-economic analysis, Hoskins reveals why the legislation fell short while examining the implications of its emergence in Brazil, which remains on the margins of the global system of informational capitalism. Hoskins places collectivist and public service principles at the core of any framework’s effectiveness. He also shows why we must create systems sensitive to the sociocultural and political-economic contexts that will shape digital rights and their usefulness.
Compelling and contrarian, Digital Rights at the Periphery looks at communications policy and internet governance in the Global South and the lessons they provide for the rest of the world.
Contributor Bio
Guy T. Hoskins is a postdoctoral fellow with the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project at Carleton University and a contract lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088506
Pub Date: 4/8/2025
$28.00
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280 Pages
17 black & white photographs
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Series: Topics in the Digital Humanities
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Lisa Marie Rhody, Susan Schreibman, Tanya E. Clement, Monika Barget, Jaime Lee Kirtz, Susan Brown, Laura Mandell
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Twelve chapters explore digital humanities practice as rich terrain for intersectional feminist creativity and critique Considers the way that feminism has expanded beyond critique and recovery to produce new analytical approaches, to reshape academic and technical infrastructures, and to make digital pedagogy more liberatory
Summary
Feminist digital humanities offers opportunities for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge and enacting new processes for creating meaning. Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman present essays that explore digital humanities practice as rich terrain for feminist creativity and critique. The editors divide the works into three categories. In the first section, contributors offer readings that demonstrate how feminist thought can be put into operation through digital practice or via analytical approaches, methodologies, and interpretations. A second section structured around infrastructure considers how technologies of knowledge creation, publication, access, and sharing can be formed or reformed through feminist values. The final section focuses on pedagogies and proposes feminist strategies for preparing students to become critical and confident readers with and against technologies.
Aimed at readers in and out of the classroom, Feminist Digital Humanities reveals the many ways scholars have pushed beyond critique to practice digital humanities in new ways.
Contributors: Daniela Agostinho, Monika Barget, Jenny Bergenmar, Susan Brown, Tanya E Clement, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Jaime Lee Kirtz, Cecilia Lindhé, Laura Mandell, Lisa Marie Rhody, Mark Sample, Susan Schreibman, Andie Silva, Nikki L. Stevens, Ravynn K. Stringfield, Dhanashree Thorat, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Kristin Veel, Astrid von Rosen, and Jacqueline Wernimont
Contributor Bio
Lisa Marie Rhody is Director of the Digital Humanities Research Institute and Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center. Susan Schreibman is a professor of digital arts and culture at Maastricht University. She is a coeditor of the New Companion to Digital Humanities, 2nd edition.
University of Illinois Press 9780252046667
Pub Date: 6/24/2025
$34.95
Discount Code: UIP Trade Hardcover
280 Pages
25 black & white photographs
Biography & Autobiography / Music
Series: Music in American Life
Diane Diekman
The first biography of country music legend, Randy Travis, which follows a 25-year career as a top-selling artist and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee
Summary
Randy Travis’s 1986 breakthrough put him at the forefront of Nashville’s new traditionalist sound and, in the words of Garth Brooks, saved country music. The singer’s warm baritone and all-time classic songs like “Forever and Ever, Amen” landed him atop the charts sixteen times. His cross-genre appeal brought a level of multiplatinum success that no country artist before him had ever achieved.
Diane Diekman’s biography follows the life and career of one of country music’s most beloved figures. Steered from a troubled path as a teen, Travis served a long apprenticeship under manager and future wife Lib Hatcher before being rejected by the Nashville music industry as “too country.” The single “On the Other Hand” and his smash debut album did away with the doubters and began a dominant four-year run that stretched into ongoing success as a recording artist, trailblazing live performer, and actor in film and television. Diekman uses dozens of interviews and in-depth research to fill in the details of Travis’s pre-fame life and his enormous impact on country, popular, and gospel music. From there, she pivots to telling the story of the singer’s difficult divorce from Hatcher, subsequent problems with alcohol and run-ins with the law, and the challenges he overcame in the aftermath of a devastating 2013 stroke.
Informed by a wealth of new research and interviews, Randy Travis is the first in-depth biography of the country music legend.
Contributor Bio
Diane Diekman is the author of Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins, winner of the Belmont Country Music Book of the Year Award, and Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story
3 Fields Books
9780252088964
Pub Date: 11/25/2025
$24.95
Discount Code: UIP Trade Paperback
304 Pages
60 color photographs
Music / History & Criticism
Rob Miller
Key Selling Points:
Neko Case endorsement: "Rob Miller doesn't hold back here as he paints a glorious, detailed landscape of how it feels to be transformed and elevated by music. He bestows heartfelt and moving reverence upon the grimy, unique scenes that make art, music, and community possible. I have never read better descriptions of what it meant to "search for" the music you needed, and how difficult, DIY and exciting that search can be."
Written with wry self-deprecation, the book is a unique look at the vibrant Chicago music scene and a little label that could, Bloodshot Records. Bloodshot Records coined the term "insurgent country," a fusion of country and punk styles.
The label released key albums by Ryan Adams, Neko Case, and many others. Author Rob Miller has access to a large network of Bloodshot Records fans. It is a musical coming of age story that treads the line between memoir and history, and is full of anecdotes, cautionary tales, and a from-the-trenches perspective on the workings of underground music.
At its heart, it is a celebration of indie communities, and an appeal to appreciate and strengthen them.
In the 3 Fields Books imprint.
Summary
“The music business is not a meritocracy: it is a crapshoot taking place in a septic tank balanced on the prow of the Titanic, a venal snake pit where innovation, creativity, and honest business practices are actively discouraged.”
Rob Miller arrived in Chicago wanting to escape the music industry. In short order, he co-founded a trailblazing record label revered for its artist-first approach and punk take on country, roots, and so much else. Miller’s gonzo memoir follows a music fan’s odyssey through a singular account of Bloodshot Records, the Chicago scene, and thirty years as part of a community sustaining independent artists and businesses.
Hilarious and hundred-proof, The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low delivers a warm-hearted yet clear-eyed account of loving and living music on the edge, in the trenches, and without apologies.
Contributor Bio
Rob Miller is the cofounder and former co-owner of Bloodshot Records. His website is robmillerwriting.com.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088711
Pub Date: 5/13/2025
$29.95
Discount Code: UIP Trade Paperback
256 Pages Music / Genres & Styles
Series: Music in American Life
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Steve Cushing, Wayne Everett Goins
Compiles Blues Before Sunrise radio interviews with famed guitarists and percussionists from the blues and jazz scene
Summary
Steve Cushing’s third volume of interviews from Blues Before Sunrise puts fans face-to-face with music legends and industry figures. The volume kicks off with a roundtable featuring drumming all-stars Earl Phillips, S.P. Leary, Odie Payne, Clifton James, and Fred Below discussing their lives and craft. Cushing segues to one-on-one interviews with Howlin’ Wolf sideman Phillips; Leary, a fellow Wolf alum and player with Sonny Boy Williamson II; Payne, known for his kick drum technique; longtime Muddy Waters drummer Willie “Big Eyes” Smith; next-generation standard bearer and session mainstay Casey Jones; and King Records house drummer Phillip Paul.
Interviews with guitarists include talks with Honeyboy Edwards, whose friendships with innumerable Chicago blues legends (and Robert Johnson) predated the Great Migration; jazz player turned bluesman Guitar Shorty; and figures like Texas native Roy Gaines, Johnny Heartsman of Oakland, and Memphis-born Floyd Murphy. A final section offers interviews with vocalists, record label founders, and other figures. Music scholar Wayne Everett Goins provides an introduction on blues history, blues style, and the careers of the featured artists.
Interviews: Joel Dorn, Honeyboy Edwards, Slim Gaillard, Roy Gaines, Johnny Heartsman, Franz Jackson, Casey Jones, S.P. Leary, Floyd Murphy, Jimmy “T-99” Nelson, Johnny Parth, Phillip Paul, Odie Payne, Earl Phillips, Art Sheridan, Guitar Shorty, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, and Norvel Taborn
Contributor Bio
Steve Cushing has hosted Blues Before Sunrise for over forty years. He is the author of Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews, Blues Before Sunrise 2: Interviews from the Chicago Scene, and Pioneers of the Blue Revival
University of Illinois Press
9780252089114
Pub Date: 1/6/2026
$24.95
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208 Pages
16 B&W photos; 2 tables Music / Religious Series: Music in American Life
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9780252046964 - $110.00 Hardcover
Kay Norton
Sallie Martin is a biography that orients around several persistent threads in a single woman's life: self-efficacy and -sufficiency, goal-setting and -attaining, and the capacity to change with the times.
Sallie Martin co-founded the National Conference of Gospel Choirs and Choruses (NCGCC, now called the "Dorsey Convention"), and the Martin and Morris Music Studio, the longest continuously operating Black music publisher in the US to date.
Few pioneers achieved what Sallie Martin did beginning in 1940, the transplantation of Chicago gospel style to a new metropolis, Los Angeles, through her tireless marketing, performing, recording, and mentoring of younger generations.
Sallie Martin combined fame as a performer with a far-sighted business acumen that brought Black gospel music to a national audience and laid the foundation for the industry that followed. Kay Norton’s biography follows Martin’s parallel careers from her early plans to grow the genre through her celebrity in the 1960s–1970s and eventful retirement. “Same old Sallie Martin, same old Jesus,” she once told audiences, a reflection of both her musical style and unapologetic approach to life. Cofounder of the National Conference of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Martin also co-established the pioneering Black music publisher Martin and Morris Music Studio. Her group the Sallie Martin Singers took Chicago gospel to all points of the compass and Martin mentored and employed dozens of aspiring vocalists and instrumentalists. Norton looks at Martin’s important relationships and the challenges she faced, while placing her accomplishments and legacy on the arc of gospel music history. In-depth and powerful, Sallie Martin, Mother of Gospel Music tells the story of one woman’s role in shaping the music and business of Black gospel.
Contributor Bio
Kay Norton is a professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University.
3 Fields Books
9780252088490
Pub Date: 3/11/2025
$22.95
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280 Pages
21 black & white photographs
Sports & Recreation / Baseball
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Ernie Banks, Minnie Miñoso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago's Major League Teams
Don Zminda
Explores why it took Chicago's MLB teams so long to integrate Contextualizes this story within Chicago's racial history marked by segregation and protest
Takes a deep look into the careers and lives of many lesser-known players whose stories are an important part of the saga of baseball integration and race relations in America
Summary
On May 1, 1951, Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two years later. The future Hall of Famers began their Chicago baseball careers against the backdrop of a 1951 race riot in suburban Cicero, where a white mob abetted by local police attacked a building that had rented to Black tenants.
Don Zminda’s account looks at these interconnected events alongside the little-known chronicle of Chicago’s slow track to integrating major league baseball. By the early 1950s, the Cubs and White Sox organizations had become rich in Black and Afro-Latino stars and talented prospects. Unlike Miñoso and Banks, however, most of these minor leaguers never advanced to the majors or, if they did, it was for little more than a cup of coffee. Zminda also profiles these players, from Charles Pope, the Cubs’ first Black signee, to larger-than-life fireballer Blood Burns.
Essential and dramatic, Justice Batted Last uses the lives and careers of two Chicago legends to tell a story of integration on and off the diamond.
Contributor Bio
Don Zminda is a sports historian and the former vice president and director of research at STATS LLC. He is the author of Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920 and The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball’s Greatest Salesman.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088681
Pub Date: 5/20/2025
$24.95
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Paperback
232 Pages
11 black & white photographs
Sports & Recreation / Basketball Series: Studies in Sports Media
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Media, and Politics in
Courtney M. Cox
Moves beyond the headlines of women's hoops, offering crucial context on the growth of the game
Offers new insights into women's basketball in a moment where more eyes are tuned in than ever before Seamlessly weaves the biggest issues and opportunities within women's basketball together, drawing from years of fieldwork and interviews
As they compete in leagues around the world, elite women’s basketball players continually adjust to new cultures, rules, and contracts.
Courtney M. Cox follows athletes, coaches, journalists, and advocates of women’s basketball as they pursue careers within the sport. Despite all attempts to contain them or prevent forward momentum, they circumvent expectations and open new possibilities within and outside of the game. Throughout the book, Cox explores the intersection of race and gender against the backdrop of the WNBA, NCAA, and other leagues within the United States and around the world. Blending interviews and participant observation with content analysis, she charts how athletes and advocates of women’s hoops illuminate new forms of navigating the global sports-media complex.
Timely and original, Double Crossover takes readers into the lived world of women’s basketball to shed light on the struggles, triumphs, and contributions of today’s players and those around them.
Courtney M. Cox is an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and the co-director of The Sound of Victory, a multi-platform digital humanities project.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088834
Pub Date: 9/23/2025
$30.00
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Paperback
304 Pages
26 black & white photographs, 5 maps, 1 table
Sports & Recreation / Cultural & Social Aspects
Series: Studies in Sports Media
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Sports and Media Infrastructure in the United States
Helen Morgan Parmett
Stadium City provides insight into the central role stadiums play in U.S. culture and history. Sports enthusiasts will be interested in the detailed history of how the stadiums they love came to be.
Residents of Minnesota, Seattle, and Atlanta will be especially interested to learn how sporting culture and their teams' stadiums helped to shape the cities in which they work and live.
Summary
A new sports stadium has an outsized impact on a city’s landscape and image of itself. Each stadium also plays a central role in media institutions, technologies, and culture as a catalyst for urban change and flashy neighborhood anchor, cornerstone of regional identity and purveyor of multimedia experiences. Helen Morgan Parmett analyzes sports stadiums in Atlanta, Seattle, and Minneapolis to demonstrate the role that media institutions, technologies, and culture play in sports and examine their impact on the urban landscape. These interconnected factors impact struggles over city space, identity, and urban governing. As Morgan Parmett shows, stadiums exist as more than just buildings and sporting places—they are central nodes in the city that connect, disconnect, and distribute resources, people, information, and, ultimately, power. Morgan Parmett demonstrates how the “sportification” of place is influenced by the specific histories, geography, and sporting cultures of a city while explaining their relationship to broader forces at work in media, sport, and urbanism. Original and incisive, Stadium City offers a beyond-the-playing-field analysis of sports stadiums and their impact on our cities and our lives.
Contributor Bio
Helen Morgan Parmett is the Edwin W. Lawrence Endowed Professor of Forensics and an associate professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Down in Treme: Race, Place, and New Orleans on Television.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088780
Pub Date: 6/10/2025
$24.95
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Paperback
224 Pages
31 black & white photographs
Sports & Recreation / Soccer Series: Sport and Society
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How Soccer Built Community in the United States
Brian D. Bunk
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Highlights historical roots of soccer in the U.S. and its key role in community life in cities around the country
The list of locations covered in the book: Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Barre, Vermont; Buffalo, New York; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Miami, Florida; Cincinnati, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, Minnesota; Denver, Colorado; Portland, Oregon, San Francisco and Alameda, California and Honolulu, Hawai'i
Summary
Played by both migrants and native-born Americans, soccer created communities across the United States. Brian D. Bunk ranges from Pawtucket to Honolulu as he illuminates the deep and diverse origins of the American sport.
Soccer took root as immigration, urbanization, and industrialization triggered immense changes across society. Matches built local pride as teams battled rival neighborhoods and towns. Teammates and supporters shared meals, raised money for fallen players, and attended each other’s weddings and funerals. If sometimes damaged by economic depression or shattered by war, clubs often bounced back to provide a steadying, resilient force in their towns. Bunk follows the story from the 1880s through World War I by profiling the struggles and joys of players while also tracing the overlooked impact of people of African, Chinese, Hawaiian, Jewish, and Filipino descent on American soccer culture.
Engaging and rich in detail, Beyond the Field draws on extensive original research to expand our idea of the people and places that formed the American game.
Contributor Bio
Brian D. Bunk is a senior lecturer II of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States.
University of Illinois Press
9780252089121
Pub Date: 1/20/2026
$27.95
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304 Pages
28 b&w photos; 11 music examples Biography & Autobiography / African American & Black Series: Sport and Society
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An Olympian's Odyssey through Jim Crow America
Brian Hallstoos
The first scholarly biography on U.S. Olympian Sol Butler, this book addresses how he challenged the system of segregation. Butler leveraged his athletic fame to move freely in educational, athletic, social, and business spaces that usually excluded African Americans. He was among the longest lasting and most significant Black sport entrepreneurs who, before Jackie Robinson, created conditions for lasting integration.
A superstar in both football and track and field Sol Butler pioneered the parlaying of sports fame into business prosperity. Brian Hallstoos tells the story of a Black athlete’s canny use of mainstream middle-class values and relationships with white society to transcend the athletic, economic, and social barriers imposed by white supremacy. Butler built on his feats as a high school athlete to become a four-year starter for the football team at Dubuque German College (later the University of Dubuque), a recordsetting sprinter and long jumper, and an Olympian at the 1920 Summer Games. Hallstoos follows Butler’s sporting accomplishments while charting how family and interracial communities influenced the ways Butler tested the limits of social and physical mobility and gave him an exceptional ability to discern where he might be most free. From there, Hallstoos turns to Butler’s use of fame to boost his entrepreneurial efforts and his multifaceted success capitalizing on his celebrity in the Black communities of Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. An engaging look at a forgotten trailblazer, Sol Butler illuminates the multifaceted life of a Black sports entrepreneur.
Brian Hallstoos is a professor at the University of Dubuque.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088803
Pub Date: 4/8/2025
$24.95
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328 Pages
34 black & white photographs, 15 tables
Sports & Recreation / Baseball Series: Sport and Society
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Benjamin G. Rader
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Updates the seminal book on baseball, including scandals, changes in the game, and new players who bring new energy to the sport
Summary
Analytics, technology, and the most ambitious rewrite of the rulebook in fifty years have reshaped baseball. Benjamin G. Rader’s account of the American pastime moves from diamonds scratched out of commons and corn fields to the multimedia theme parks doubling as today’s baseball stadiums. The fifth edition follows the long arc of the game’s history into the third decade of the twenty-first century, an era rich in innovation but even richer from revenue streams undreamt-of by the plutocrats of old. Rader brings readers up to date with looks at the Astros cheating scandal, on-the-field changes from power pitchers to ghost runners, data-driven player development and career rebirth, and the one-of-a-kind Shohei Ohtani.
Engrossing and complete, Baseball, Fifth Edition, offers a comprehensive tour of the game and its place within American society and culture.
Contributor Bio
Benjamin G. Rader is the James L. Sellers Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and the coauthor of American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports, Seventh Edition.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088995
Pub Date: 12/23/2025
$27.95
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Paperback
224 Pages
5 black & white photos
Sports & Recreation / Football Series: Sport and Society
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Hunter Hampton
Analyzes the vast impact of football at Notre Dame University, Brigham Young University, Wheaton College, Wiley College, Baylor University, and Liberty University. For better and worse, football helped each group define proper religious, gendered, and racial belief systems.
The focus on college football provides consistent narrative threads to hold together the changing patchwork of 20th-century American religion and history.
Time periods covered:
Notre Dame - Late 1800s to early 1900s
BYU - 1890-1930
Wheaton College - 1910-1950
Wiley College - 1920-1969
Baylor University - WWII-1970
Liberty University - 1971-Present
Summary
From the game’s early days, college football and a strain of muscular Christianity built a mutually reinforcing culture that taught lessons in America’s dominant religious, gendered, and racial belief systems. Christians of many denominations embraced the game to shape and reshape their faith to meet the changing social demands of the twentieth century. Hunter M. Hampton analyzes the impact of football on Christian college campuses. Baptists and Latter-day Saints, Evangelicals and Roman Catholics sought spiritual and personal meaning on the gridiron. Fans watched the action to find God’s lessons for them. Wins and losses expressed the divine will while the game’s popularity offered a potent way to evangelize non-believers. Hampton also investigates the sport’s place in providing a stage for fostering Christian manhood, male community, gender dominance, and on-the-field displays of heroic savagery that served a higher purpose. Provocative and engaging, The Gridiron Gospel looks at the All-American fusion of physical and spiritual muscle.
Contributor Bio
Hunter M. Hampton is an assistant professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University.
University of Illinois Press
9780252089039
Pub Date: 12/9/2025
$29.95
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296 Pages
21 black & white photographs
Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists
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Johann Most is considered one of the political agitators of the Haymarket riots in Chicago
This first scholarly biography of Johann Most in English sheds light on the complexities of a misunderstood revolutionary who shaped the transnational anarchist and labor movements, making his legacy essential to understanding American anarchism's foundations.
Buyers and general readers will be captivated by the story of a revolutionary thinker whose journey from German socialism to American anarchism offers fresh insights into the political upheavals of the 19th century, his critique of religion, and his defense of science within emancipatory movements. By exploring Most's ideological evolution, his challenges against authority, and his pioneering advocacy for workers' rights, the book connects historical struggles to ongoing fights for equity and freedom, appealing to readers seeking inspiration from history's radicals.
Was viewed as one of the rhetorical instigators of the Haymarket Riot.
Summary
Known best for articulating the propaganda of the deed, Johann Most was and still is caricatured as a radical fanatic. Tom Goyens’ in-depth biography rediscovers the complexities that animated the German American agitator and made him a pivotal figure in the development of anarchism in the US and socialism in Germany. Most galvanized workers through passionate speeches and writings that showcased his gifts as a performer, satirist, and rhetorician. Numerous challenges, including repeated convictions for his incendiary rhetoric, failed to curb his organizing or his efforts to foster a dedicated network of comrades that included Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and his common-law wife, Helene Minkin. Goyens details Most’s essential contributions to the anarchist movement while also highlighting his critique of religion and defense of science within emancipatory movements. As Goyens follows Most’s ideological journey, he illuminates the political contexts that shaped the anarchist’s evolving views on revolutionary action and social change. Comprehensive and long overdue, Johann Most traces the intellectual life and enduring relevance of a misunderstood radical figure.
Contributor Bio
Tom Goyens is a professor of history at Salisbury University. He is the author of Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880–1914
University of Illinois Press
9780252088858
Pub Date: 9/9/2025
$28.00
Discount Code: UIP TEXT & LIBRARY EDITION
Paperback
216 Pages
8 black & white photographs, 1 table, 2 maps
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration Series: Studies of World Migrations
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Connecting Activism, Policy, and Scholarship
Benjamin Gatling
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This book centers the voices of migrants and refugees within immigration debates and humanizes the realities that migrants and refugees face. Bridges advocacy, academic inquiry, and the lived experiences of migrants and refugees.
Migration Stories is multidisciplinary: contributions from folklore studies, anthropology, sociology, political science, and law, as well as policy professionals and immigration activists.
Summary
Migrants’ and refugees’ stories have become an essential part of the public debate around immigration. Benjamin Gatling edits interdisciplinary essays that bring together the distinct perspectives of researchers, activists, and policymakers to emphasize how these often-siloed communities can use stories as social science data and advocacy tools.Ranging from oral history projects to the asylum process to calls for decolonial justice, the contributors’ analyses illuminate how migrants’ and refugees’ personal narratives influence both perceptions and policies. Their merger of perspectives provides a nuanced understanding of migration and emphasizes the importance of how storytelling can foster empathy, challenge stereotypes, and drive social change. At the same time, the essays center migrants’ and refugees’ voices within public debates and in work done to humanize the reality they face. Original and multifaceted, Migration Stories provides a vital addition to how we study and frame immigration.
Contributor Bio
Benjamin Gatling is an associate professor of English at George Mason University. He is the author of Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088629
Pub Date: 4/8/2025
$28.00
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256 Pages
16 black & white photographs Religion / Judaism
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Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Joseph Butwin, Ed Baker, Tony Geist
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A singular approach to Jewish-American history and assimilation through membership in the Communist Party in the Spanish Civil War Highlights how militant resistance to Fascism on the part of Jews before World War II
Summary
Jewish volunteers made up almost one-third of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALB) during the Spanish Civil War. Most belonged to a Communist Party focused on the antifascist goals of the Popular Front and faithful to the internationalist idea of erasing ethnicity, including Jewish ethnicity.
Joseph Butwin’s oral history presents conversations with ten Jewish veterans of the ALB. Recorded from 1992–94 in the wake of European communism’s collapse, the interviews explore the milieus that formed the volunteers. Immigrants established the secular Yiddish-speaking socialism that became a part of many Jewish American communities. Their children, reacting to economic depression and the rise of fascism, enlisted in the ALB. Butwin follows their stories from their youthful motives and choices through their lives as Jews and leftists, and records the reckonings that took place as they reflected on their past.
Insightful and revealing, Salud y Shalom explores the forces of identity and history that led young Jewish leftists to fight fascism.
Contributor Bio
Joseph Butwin is an associate professor emeritus of English and Jewish studies at the University of Washington. He is the coauthor of Sholom Aleichem (1977).
University of Illinois Press
9780252088551
Pub Date: 5/13/2025
$30.00
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304 Pages
5 black & white photographs, 3 tables
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
Series: Studies of World Migrations
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9780252046469 - $125.00 Hardcover
Danielle Battisti, S. Deborah Kang, Carly Goodman, Randa Tawil, Ashley Johnson Bavery, Mary Patrice Erdmans
Unpacks the long and varied histories of irregular European immigration to the United States - and the reasons why you probably haven't heard about those histories before Asserts that various state and non-state practices frequently obscured, and even normalized, irregular migration strategies employed by immigrant groups who benefited from their legal and social status as whites in the twentieth century
Summary
Often depicted as the nation’s iconic legal immigrant, unauthorized European migrants are often overlooked by scholars, policymakers, and the media. This volume tells the stories of European migrants who adopted irregular migration strategies to enter and remain in the United States throughout the twentieth century. Contributors explore facets of this history with essays on migration patterns from Russia, Italy, Ireland, the Ottoman Empire, and Poland. They also offer important arguments about the treatment of unauthorized European migrants by states and societies on both sides of the Atlantic and how the reception of undocumented immigrants has been and continues to be impacted by the dynamics of racial, class, and gender constructions in the United States and abroad. As the contributors show, the reception accorded unauthorized European migrants frequently obscured and even normalized their irregular migration strategies, easing their access to American citizenship.
Revealing and insightful, Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States sheds new light our intertwined notions of race, legality, and immigration.
Contributors: Danielle Battisti, Ashley Johnson Bavery, Mary Patrice Erdmans, Polina Ermoshkina, Torsten Feys, Carly Goodman, S. Deborah Kang, E. Kyle Romero, Randa Tawil, and Joanna Wojdon
Contributor Bio
Danielle Battisti is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. She is the author of Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965. S. Deborah Kang is John L. Nau III Associate Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917–1954.
University of Illinois Press 9780252046797
Pub Date: 12/9/2025
$55.00
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Hardcover
360 Pages
20 color photographs, 65 black & white photographs
Performing Arts / Dance
Series: Working Class in American History
The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing
April Masten
A vivid portrait of a forgotten world, Diamond and Juba tells the intertwined stories of two legendary performers of Black-Irish jigs, whose rivalry transformed American dance.
Rescues from obscurity the untold story of Black-Irish jig dancing, its rival champions, and the integrated worlds in which they thrived. Their story reveals what happens when similar dancing traditions collide in a nation divided by race and class.
During the tumultuous years before the Civil War, Irish American John Diamond and African American William Henry Lane, known as Juba, became internationally famous as competitors in the art and sport of challenge dancing. April F. Masten’s dual biography reconstructs the lives and work of these extraordinary dancers, casting fresh light on their contributions to the history of American popular culture. Challenge dancing was born from Black-Irish social interaction in the dockside markets, taverns, and theaters of antebellum New York. Promoted as a masculine art with close ties to boxing, it featured prolific gambling, hefty purses, and championship belts, yet also included women competitors, cross-dressing, and blackface. The astonishing jigs of its foremost practitioners attracted huge audiences across northeastern port cities, along Mississippi Valley circus routes, and into England’s provincial music halls. Diamond and Juba’s rivalry and parallel careers provide a rare glimpse into Black and immigrant strivings in an expanding nation keen for talent yet divided by prejudice. A vivid portrait of a forgotten world, Diamond and Juba tells the intertwined stories of two legendary performers.
Contributor Bio
April F. Masten is a professor of American history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth Century New York
University of Illinois Press
9780252088636
Pub Date: 4/8/2025
$28.00
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392 Pages
70 black & white photographs, 3 music examples, 10 tables Music / Genres & Styles Series: Music in American Life
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Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
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Follows the pacific-crossing of Chinese opera theater across the Pacific and to mining and railroad towns
Tells the story of four iconic Chinese theaters in San Francisco that demonstrated resilience in the face of rapid escalation of anti-Chinese sentiment
Sheds light on theater and visual cultures that impact on the Chinese community's sense of cultural self, and American urban cultures
Summary
In the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese opera theater arrived as one of the significant performing art forms in California. Nancy Yunhwa Rao excavates and contextualizes the important history of Chinese Opera Theater, bringing to light the ways it became woven into the financial, political, social, and family life in California and beyond.
Chinese opera theater found brick-and-mortar homes with San Francisco theaters like the Hing Chuen Yuen and the Donn Qui Yuen. But troupes had already followed Chinese immigrants to mining and railroad towns, and across the American West. As Chinese theater became part of California and San Francisco culture, popular Chinese actors advocated for their art alongside appeals for civil rights. Rao draws on personal diaries, newspapers and artifacts to place Chinese theater within the everyday lives of San Francisco. She also examines the costumes, singing, staging, and storytelling that impacted mainstream reception and influenced how Chinese communities saw themselves.
Illustrated with seventy photographs, Inside Chinese Theater is an expert and eloquent journey into the early decades of Chinese opera in America.
Contributor Bio
Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a professor of music at Rutgers University and the author of Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. UNIVERSITY
University of Illinois Press
9780252089091
Pub Date: 1/6/2026
$30.00
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280 Pages
15 black & white photos; 1 map; 1 table; 10 music examples Music / Ethnomusicology
Series: Music in American Life
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9780252046957 - $110.00 Hardcover
Kristina F. Nielsen
Examines Aztec dance in California and how dancers approach cultural traditions and histories.
Considers efforts to reclaim the Indigenous heritages of Mexican peoples, including many residing in the United States.
A powerful expression of Indigenous and Mexican identity, Aztec dance has become a part of Mexican and Mexican American cultural life across North America. Kristina F. Nielsen examines California’s Aztec dance communities to illuminate how the dancers interpret authenticity, tradition, history, and Indigenous and national identities through their music and dance practices. Merging history with on-the-ground interviews, Nielsen looks at the different approaches to Aztec dance. Some dancers maintain practices as they have been passed down through lineages of hybrid Indigenous and Catholic practices. Others strive to restore traditions to what they believe they were in the early 1500s. Nielsen’s analysis examines Mexican and Mexican American understandings of Indigenous histories that inform these decisions by Aztec dancers, and considers the ways they intersect with decolonization in the United States. Enlightening and rigorous, Aztec Music and Dance in California takes readers into the dynamic world of an ever-evolving art form.
Contributor Bio
Kristina F. Nielsen is an assistant professor of musicology at Southern Methodist University.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088476
Pub Date: 2/25/2025
$28.00
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280 Pages
14 black & white photographs
Technology & Engineering / Radio Series: The History of Media and Communication
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American Radio at Home and Abroad, 1914-1946
Michael A. Krysko
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By exploring radio policies and listening both within the US and abroad, this book combines the expertise and perspectives of communications studies and US foreign relations history
Analyzes opposition to non-English language entertainment broadcasting in the US,
Mexico-based "border blaster" stations that disrupted American radio, foreign language educational programs that targeted both American and non-American audiences, and more
Summary
Controversial American-led radio initiatives sparked a kaleidoscope of conflicts and rivalries from the medium’s earliest days through the end of World War II. Michael A. Krysko explores how the medium engaged the knowledge, assumptions, and prejudices that fueled listeners’ and policymakers’ objections to foreign and unwelcome radio content.
Krysko considers Americans’ antagonism toward non-English language broadcasting; issues of identity, geography, and sovereignty that propelled opposition to Mexico’s “border blaster” stations; how a project aimed at helping Cajun-speaking listeners became a French-only celebration of Acadian culture; a failed initiative to teach English to Latin Americans via shortwave broadcasting; enduring US-Panamanian conflicts over the control of radio in and around the Panama Canal; and how farmers from across the Southwest protested a radio treaty’s perceived preferential treatment of Cuba. Paying particular attention to the act of listening, Krysko shows how these initiatives illuminated and solidified divisions rooted in identity, nationalism, and prejudice.
Clear and wide-ranging, Contested Airwaves reveals early radio’s place at the nexus of public programming, transnational relations, and its own evolution as a communication medium.
Michael A. Krysko is an associate professor of history at Kansas State University. He is the author of American Radio in China: International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919-41
University of Illinois Press
9780252088667
Pub Date: 5/20/2025
$26.00
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Paperback
216 Pages
12 black & white photographs, 2 maps
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies
Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
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Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago
Sergio Lemus
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Examines Chicago's yard work activity-las yardas-and the new working class population it gave rise to-los yarderos
Offers deeper insights into the intersections of class, labor, and race that impact identity formation for immigrant laborers making a home in the U.S.
Migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Michoacán have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work.
Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks at the struggles they face as they work to make the city their home. Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos and discusses the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity. Lemus’s compassionate portrait places them within America’s ongoing tradition as a nation of immigrants while analyzing their place within today’s transborder cultural moment.
Perceptive and humane, Los Yarderos reveals how a group of Mexican immigrants navigates the crossings of the borders that divide class, color hierarchies, gender, and belonging.
Contributor Bio
Sergio Lemus is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088650
Pub Date: 4/22/2025
$28.00
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200 Pages
Social Science / Women's Studies
Series: NWSA / UIP First Book Prize
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The Transnational Struggle for Justice against Big Oil and the State Domale Dube
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Provides one of the first major accounts of Black women's transnational organizing for climate and environmental justice against a major oil corporation Blends analyses in postcolonial and gender studies to highlight intersectional nonviolent resistance in Nigeria and beyond
Summary
In 1995, Nigeria’s dictatorial government executed nine Ogoni leaders fighting for civil rights and against Shell Oil’s depredations of Ogoni land. Domale Dube draws on interviews and participant observation to tell the long-ignored story of how women carved out a role in the Ogoni pursuit of justice.
Dube’s account examines and documents the issues that drew women into the movement, from concerns for themselves and their communities to grander visions for the Ogoni. As she shows, these issues not only influenced organizing in Nigeria but also the diaspora in general and the United States in particular. Ogoni women relied upon nonviolent protest to realize their aims. Dube looks at their campaigns and how their actions reflected their concerns, values, interests, and priorities. The result is a rare account of Black women and transnational organizing for women’s, climate, and environmental justice that merges a history of their involvement with an in-depth analysis of the racial, gender, and ethnic dimensions of the Ogoni Struggle.
Contributor Bio
Domale Dube is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088643
Pub Date: 4/8/2025
$32.00
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328 Pages
6 charts, 4 tables
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
Series: Working Class in American History
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9780252046520 - $125.00 Hardcover
Nick Juravich, Steve Striffler, Devan Hawkins, Samir Sonti, Ismael García-Colón, Carlos Aramayo
Brings together a wide range of authors and voices, including rank-and-file workers, union organizers, and scholars working in many fields, to provide a wide range of perspectives on workers' experience and working-class politics during the COVID-19 pandemic
Combines broad historical and thematic overviews of major topics including inflation, working-class formation, and workers' safety with detailed, on-theground studies of work and organizing during the first three years of the pandemic
Summary
During the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of workers lost their jobs in sectors from hospitality to transportation, while healthcare and frontline service workers faced a new world of brutal hours in unsafe and even deadly conditions. Yet, as the US economy reopened, workers experienced a rare moment of leverage as demand for labor and government support powered a surge of collective action that allowed working people to seek rights, respect, and power on the job through resignations, walkouts, strikes, and union organizing. The lessons and legacies of this upsurge in organizing continue to shape work, activism, and politics across the nation today. Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler edit a collection that examines the effects of the pandemic on workers. Sections of the book focus on specific impacts and government efforts to restructure the economy; the dramatic effect of the pandemic on the hospitality industry; educators’ response on behalf of themselves and their students; frontline healthcare workers; and the innovative forms of labor organizing that emerged during and after COVID.
Contributors: Carlos Aramayo, Kathleen Brown, Sandrine Etienne, Ismael GarcíaColón, Puya Gerami, Maura Hagan, Connor Harney, Devan Hawkins, Leigh Howard, Marian Moser Jones, Doris Joy, Nick Juravich, Eric Larson, Kathryn M. Meyer, Samir Sonti, Steve Striffler, Lia Warner, Andrew B. Wolf, and Jennifer Zelnick
Contributor Bio
Nick Juravich is an assistant professor of history and labor studies and the associate director of the Labor Resource Center at UMass Boston. He is the author of Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education. Steve Striffler is the director of the Labor Resource Center at UMass Boston. He is the coeditor of Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088728
Pub Date: 7/8/2025
$30.00
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264 Pages
1 chart
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Series: Dissident Feminisms
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9780252046612 - $110.00 Hardcover
Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore
Nurhaizatul Jamil
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Complicates normative representations of Singapore by analyzing how race, religion, class, and gender are both disciplined and experienced by focusing on the lives of Muslim women
Shines light on the ways that dominant portrayals of Singapore elide race and class fissures through analyses of racial capitalism, historical trauma and embodied healing
Summary
Malay Muslim women in Singapore cultivate piety by attending popular Islamic self-help classes. Nurhaizatul Jamil’s ethnographic study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of this phenomenon.
The Islamic self-help classes in this book exist at the nexus of sacred texts, aphorisms, and social media engagements, scaffolded by the neoliberal economy that shapes idealized Muslim subjectivities. Within a context whereby the Singapore state discursively frames Malayness in terms of cultural deficiency, Malay Muslim women’s inward focus on transformative ethics rather than societal change underscores the appeal of gendered pious self-help discourses. At the same time, Jamil’s referencing of Black, Indigenous, and Ethnic studies offers a compelling analytical frame that places affective transformation within the context of racial capitalism, historical trauma, and embodied healing.
A provocative and rich ethnography, Faithful Transformations tells the stories of Malay Muslim women desiring piety and self-improvement as minoritized subjects in contemporary Singapore while exploring the limitations of self-care.
Contributor Bio
Nurhaizatul Jamil is an assistant professor of global south studies at Pratt Institute.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088674
Pub Date: 6/24/2025
$24.95
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272 Pages
10 black & white photographs
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
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Ileana Nachescu
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Monograph of one of the most famous African American women's organizations during the Women's Liberation Movement--documenting the group's social and intellectual activism and explores feminist writings signed by Brenda Eichelberger and based on collective insights Highlights Black women's contribution to organizing for the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment and their search for cross-racial coalitions
Summary
Founded in 1975, the non-partisan National Alliance of Black Feminists (NABF) played a critical role in the Black women’s liberation movement and the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment. The Chicago-based organization’s Black humanist feminism powered a singular dedication to building coalitions while influencing its historic set of comprehensive political, economic, and cultural demands.
Ileana Nachescu places the NABF’s history as the bridge between Black women’s social activism in the 1970s and the intellectual activism of the 1980s. Her account details the NABF’s work and how it reflected the group’s strong humanist belief in the transformation of all human beings. Nachescu also shows that the NABF’s post-Eighties erasure from movement histories is consistent with how many white feminists marginalized women of color and rejected their leadership. From there, Nachescu examines Black lesbians’ vibrant support of the NABF and shows how respectability politics pressured the group to support its lesbian membership in private but maintain a public silence on the issue.
A rare in-depth look at an overlooked organization, The National Alliance of Black Feminists tells an untold story of Black women’s liberation in the Midwest.
Contributor Bio
Ileana Nachescu is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088742
Pub Date: 7/22/2025
$30.00
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296 Pages
33 black & white photographs
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies
Series: New Black Studies Series
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Gabriel A. Peoples
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Focuses largely on Black life and representations and think about the political consequences of intentional and unintentional acts of performance that go viral and affect Black people
Traces the history and legacy of Black virality through perfromance, literature, and media analyses
Summary
Black virality refers to the spread of Black performance that becomes uncontrollable because of its rapid and ubiquitous circulation through popular media. Gabriel A. Peoples examines Black people and representations of Black people that have gone viral from the eighteenth century to today.
Peoples’s analysis ranges from abolitionist and proslavery visual culture to Do the Right Thing to “Bed Intruder Song” and the cellphone video of Derrion Albert’s murder. After identifying these moments, he considers how performances go viral in Black ways. He also thinks through the ways Black virality circulates ideas that materially affect Black life. As he shows, an interacting person’s vulnerability to racialized gender and racialized sexuality knowledge inspires how they spread a performance. Non-iconic elements of viral moments reveal hard-to-find nuances of Black life while the artists and others represented in viral moments promote both collective and individual liberation by harnessing their visibility and audibility.
Rigorous and expansive, Goin’ Viral uses Black virality as a new way to understand and frame Black performances.
Contributor Bio
Gabriel A. Peoples is an assistant professor of gender studies at Indiana University.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088704
Pub Date: 5/13/2025
$27.95
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240 Pages
7 black & white photographs, 1 chart, 4 music examples
Music / History & Criticism Series: Music in American Life
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Stephen Stacks
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Shows how freedom song is not a static repertoire for a historical movement but a living tradition that provides fertile ground for constructing memory, crafting identity, and leveraging capital in contemporary freedom struggles
Connects the Civil Rights Movement and its music in the present, including how the memory of the movement and its music compares to contemporary freedom struggles such as the Black Lives Matter movement
Demonstrates how figures such as Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rhiannon Giddens, and Beyoncé all participate in the tradition of freedom singing and use it to craft political and musical identities
Summary
Far from being bounded by the timeframe of the 1960s, freedom song continues to evolve as a tool both of historical memory and of present activism. Stephen Stacks looks at how post-1968 freedom song helps us negotiate our present relationship to the era while at the same time sustaining the contemporary struggle inspired by it. Stacks’s analysis shifts the focus of attention from genre--freedom song--to process and practice--freedom singing. As he shows, freedom singing after 1968 generates multilayered meanings. It can reinforce, or resist, consensus memories or dominant narratives. Stacks illuminates freedom singing’s diversity by examining it in three contexts: performance, protest, and within documentary sound recording/film.
Insightful and vividly detailed, The Resounding Revolution examines sixty years of Black music to challenge and reshape the entrenched story of the Civil Rights Movement.
Contributor Bio
Stephen Stacks is an assistant professor of music at North Carolina Central University.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088544
Pub Date: 5/13/2025
$28.00
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264 Pages
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Series: Transformations: Womanist studies
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9780252046452 - $110.00 Hardcover
Spirituality,
Sarah Soanirina Ohmer
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Argues that contemporary literature creates a space for spiritual healing with five components: ancestors and Spirit, liberation from colonial language; identity formation in mirror scenes; and (m)Otherhood
Weaves together personal experiences with literary analysis, creating a multigenre and multilingual narrative to parallel the author's journey with her findings from texts from Brazil, Cuba, the United States, and Guadeloupe
Women of colors and a literature written in corporeal and spiritual scars
The corporeal and spiritual healing in literature by women of colors can be seen to redefine modern thought and printed text. Sarah Soanirina Ohmer traces the impact of colonization and enslavement on Black women and Black women’s contributions to colonial, nineteenth, and twentieth century literature in the US, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
Drawing on intersectional analysis, Ohmer focuses on portrayals of trauma and spirituality in works by Toni Morrison, Conceição Evaristo, Maryse Condé, Gloria Anzaldúa, the Quilombhoje poets, and María de los Reyes Castillo. Ohmer compares literature from different countries along four thematic pathways: ghosts, mirrors, naming, and motherhood. Her analysis unlocks the literature’s power to heal through gut-wrenching descriptions of wounds and thrilling passages of hope and liberation. Throughout, Ohmer weaves in her life story as a Black woman as she reflects on how colonialism, racism, sexism, and capitalism have impacted her work, traumas, and faith journey.
Contributor Bio
Sarah Soanirina Ohmer is an associate professor of Latin American studies and Africana studies at City University of New York Lehman College.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088414
Pub Date: 2/25/2025
$24.95
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384 Pages
Religion / Religion, Politics & State
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(2nd Edition)
White Christian Nationalism from the Puritans through January 6, 2021
Richard T. Hughes, Christina Littlefield, Randall Balmer
Key Selling Points:
New and substantially updated edition of Hughes' influential Christian America and the Kingdom of God (University of Illinois Press, 2012)
Shares the history of white Christian nationalism from the Puritans through the January 6th insurrection and through the 2022 midterms
Summary
The myth of a Christian America fuels a powerful political force sure of its moral superiority and intent on implementing a Christian nationalist agenda. Richard T. Hughes and Christina Littlefield draw on discussions of civil religion and forms of nationalism to explore the complex legal and cultural arguments for a Christian America. The authors also provide an in-depth examination of the Bible’s words on the “chosen nation” and “kingdom of God” that Christian nationalists quote to support the idea of the US as a Christian nation.
A timely new edition of the acclaimed work, Christian America and the Kingdom of God spotlights how the centuries-long pursuit of a Christian America has bred an aggressive white Christian nationalism that twists faith, unleashes unchristian behavior, and threatens the nation.
Richard T. Hughes is a professor emeritus at both Pepperdine University and Messiah College. He is the author of Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning, Second Edition, and coauthor of Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America, Third Edition. Christina Littlefield is an associate professor of communication and religion at Pepperdine University. She is the author of Chosen Nations: Pursuit of the Kingdom of God and its Influence on Democratic Values in Late-Nineteenth Century Britain and the United States.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088735
Pub Date: 7/8/2025
$28.00
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208 Pages
21 black & white photographs, 18 tables, 30 listening guides-flow plans Music / Ethnomusicology
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Balinese Gamelan Angklung Cremation Music
Ellen Koskoff
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The first book-length study of Balinese gamelan angklung cremation music based on ethnographic fieldwork
Highlights recordings of the cremation repertoire and analyses of the music based on changes in rasa (feeling)
Summary
An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a small, four-tone bronze-keyed ensemble that remains ubiquitous at cremations in Bali. Ellen Koskoff offers a compelling portrait of these little-studied orchestras and their members: rice farmers, eatery owners, and other locals who do not see themselves as musicians or what they play as music. Koskoff examines the history, cultural significance, and musical structures of contemporary gamelan angklung cremation music through the lens of three intertwined stories: existing scholarship on this music, written mostly by Western composers and scholars; the views of those performing and experiencing the music who regard it as dharma--ritual obligation, a basic concept in Balinese Hinduism; and the music itself, with a musical analysis focusing on changes in rasa--feeling, flavor and musical flow.
A journey inside a tradition, Bittersweet Sounds of Passage reveals the overlooked music of an important ritual in Balinese village life.
Contributor Bio
Ellen Koskoff is Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Her many books include the award-winning Music in Lubavitcher Life and A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088957
Pub Date: 10/21/2025
$28.00
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224 Pages
15 black & white photographs
Performing Arts / Film
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A New Feminist Cinema
Olivia Landry
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Cinema of Crushing Motherhood is a study of representations of motherhood in contemporary cinema through a series of negative affects. It focuses on films released between 2007 and 2023 from across multiple national cinemas. Proposes a new feminist cinema; engages regretting motherhood debate; challenges psychoanalytic models that focus on the child rather than the mother
Summary
Twenty-first century contemporary films like Emily Atef’s Das Fremde in mir and Savannah Leaf’s Earth Mama portray motherhood as a source of regret, exhaustion, rage, shame, guilt, and disgust. Olivia Landry analyzes this new feminist cinema and the ways it embraces and explores the crushing burden of mothering children. Landry surveys films released in North America, Europe, and Australia over a period beginning in 2007. As she shows, revelation and the expression of negative feelings upend the traditional image of the perfect, self-sacrificial, and happy mother. Landry tracks how radical positions like maternal regret and family abolition have replaced age-old tropes while also going beyond portrayals of maternal ambivalence. Her feminist method casts off psychoanalysis and renounces pathological approaches to motherhood to show how a generation of filmmakers have insisted on the subjective position and experience of the mother rather than that of the child. Bold and groundbreaking, Cinema of Crushing Motherhood looks at taboo-breaking films and illuminates the emotions and affects that make them so powerful.
Contributor Bio
Olivia Landry is an associate professor of German and chair of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of A Decolonizing Ear: Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
University of Illinois Press
9780252088940
Pub Date: 10/21/2025
$35.00
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304 Pages
68 color photographs
Art / American Series: New Black Studies Series
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Tanisha Jackson
Delves into the transformative spaces Black women artists create, where art becomes a tool for healing, empowerment, and community care. This hook appeals to media exploring the intersections of art, wellness, and social innovation.
Emphasizes the creation and impact of art ecosystems-the spaces, networks, and communities Black women build to foster wellness. This focus on collective environments and ecosystems adds a unique dimension to discussions about art and healing.
Summary
It is not an uncommon burden but rather a choice that Black women artists embrace creating art as a socio-political strategy to save themselves and their communities. Tanisha M. Jackson analyzes visual and personal narratives, historical archives, and artmaking practices to reveal how Black women artists facilitate wellness through creative expression and cultural knowledge. Delving into historical and contemporary practices, Jackson looks at Black women who use their artwork as acts of resistance, self-expression, and holistic wellness. Jackson’s multidisciplinary approach blends art history, Black studies, and personal narratives to examine the ways that the art ecosystems created by these women foster resilience and empowerment. Their dramatic stories underscore the transformative power of art in cultivating activism and mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being but also provide a framework for understanding how art can be a vital component of self-care and communal wellness. A meticulous portrait and inspiring roadmap, Black Women’s Art Ecosystems celebrates Black women’s artistic achievements while revealing how their work creates communities of restoration and mental health.
Contributor Bio
Tanisha M. Jackson is an assistant professor of African American studies at Syracuse University.
3 Fields Books
9780252088766
Pub Date: 5/20/2025
$19.95
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152 Pages
13 color photographs; 9 black P& white photographs
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Nora Wendl
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A finalist for the 2022 Graywolf Prize in Nonfiction Reinterprets the story of Chicago-based physician and poet Edith Farnsworth and how her life and desires were the inspiration for architect Mies van der Rohe's first glass house in the U.S., located in Plano, Illinois Addresses how a feminist architectural history is rewritten, including negotiations to access materials, traveling, and the personal risks that are required for historians to take on and correct the past
Summary
The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover.
Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith Farnsworth House and its two central figures. An eminent physician and woman of letters, Farnsworth left a rich trove of correspondence, memoirs, and photographs that Wendl uses to reconstruct her voice. Farnsworth’s memories and experiences alternate with Wendl’s thoughts on topics like misogyny and professional ambition to fashion a lyrical examination of love, loneliness, beauty, and the search for the divine.
Eloquent and confessional, Almost Nothing restores Edith Farnsworth to her place in architectural history and the masterpiece that bears her name.
Contributor Bio
Nora Wendl is an essayist, artist, architect, and associate professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico.
3 Fields Books
9780252088896
Pub Date: 10/7/2025
$19.95
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176 Pages
18 black & white photographs Sports & Recreation / Pool, Billiards, Snooker
Chicago’s Amateur Pool Players and the Quest for Glory in the Biggest Tournament in the World
Dylan Taylor-Lehman
Going Rackless specifically explores the history of pool in Chicago, providing an insightful look at the how Chicago influenced the development of the game and the impact the game had on the city
Takes into the passion of pool that will appeal to pool players, fans, and those interested in sports literature
Summary
Playing every angle for a shot at the big time Chicagoans venture to area pool halls to perfect their games and navigate league play for a shot at the APA World Pool Championships in Las Vegas. Dylan Taylor-Lehman joins a lively cast of characters under the lights and inside a subculture as old as Chicago itself. Whether running the table or waiting their turn, everyone has a story to tell and opinions to share on position play, billiards’s unwritten code, and life itself. Taylor-Lehman follows four promising teams on a mission to reach Vegas before unwinding an electric account of what it takes to win the world’s premier amateur tournament—and what you take away when the balls aren’t sunk. Entertaining and immersive, Going Rackless puts readers tableside to watch a game everyone has played but few truly understand.
Contributor Bio
Dylan Taylor-Lehman is a journalist and writer and the author of Sealand: The True Story of the World’s Most Stubborn Micronation and Its Eccentric Royal Family and Dance of the Trustees: On the Astonishing Concerns of a Small Ohio Township
University of Illinois Press
9780252088827
Pub Date: 10/21/2025
$25.00
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128 Pages
Social Science / Abortion & Birth Control
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Abortion, Inequity, and Resistance
Michele Eggers-Barison
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This book examines how Chile's shifting political landscape and restrictive abortion policies construct women as criminals while deepening social and economic inequalities. By centering women's voices, it exposes the human rights violations and the ways that women resist systemic inequities.
Summary
Until 2017, Chile’s abortion laws remained among the most draconian and restrictive in the world. The dozens of interviews that Michele Eggers-Barison conducted between 2011 and 2014 reveal how the criminalization of abortion and the construction of women as criminals went hand in hand—and both shaped and sustained structural, cultural, and direct forms of violence against women. Eggers-Barison uncovers the narratives of economically disadvantaged, Indigenous, and immigrant women who broke the Chilean law by terminating a pregnancy. Their stories reveal how laws and policies that regulate and control women’s reproductive lives also construct women as criminals. As Eggers-Barison shows, systems of inequality legitimize and sustain harmful attitudes and practices while creating concrete expressions of discrimination and other forms of violence against women. Their experience with abortion remains hidden within spaces of illegality and only becomes visible due to health or legal consequences. Yet despite the obstacles, women used individual and collective forms of group action to resist anti-abortion laws. Timely and vivid, Criminalization of Women shows how abortion’s illegality inscribes itself on a woman’s body and reality.
Contributor Bio
Michele Eggers-Barison is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at California State University, Chico.
University of Illinois Press
9780252088568
Pub Date: 5/13/2025
$28.00
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264 Pages
2 color photographs, 1 map
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Series: Transformations: Womanist studies
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Isis Nusair, Barbara L. Shaw, AnaLouise Keating, Misty De Berry, Richard Russo, Andrea N. Baldwin, Linh U. Hua, K. Melchor Hall
Thirteen chapters lay out how and why intersectional, transnational, liberatory, and/or interdisciplinary approaches matter in higher education
Contributors to this collection are not only addressing pedagogical approaches, they are worldmaking in/from the academy using art, performance, digital humanities, community-engaged pedagogies, and off-campus programs to illustrate how the university is linked to our communities and to opportunities for social change
A generation of scholar-teacher-activists have moved beyond collaborating in theory to embodying, engaging in, and sharing how they practice their pedagogy. Isis Nusair and Barbara L. Shaw edit essays that link feminist, queer, anti-racist, decolonial, and disability theory and practice while using intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to explore how the personal remains political. The contributors describe ways of building communities within and beyond academic programs and examine what it means to engage in community-building work and action across institutional boundaries. In Part One, the essayists focus on the centrality of community building and reinterpreting bodies of knowledge with students, staff, faculty, and community members. Part Two looks at bringing transnational approaches to feminist collaborations in ways that challenge the classroom’s central place in knowledge production. Part Three explores organic collaborations in and beyond the classroom.
A practical and much-needed resource, Pedagogies of Interconnectedness offers cutting-edge ideas for collaboration in pedagogy, education justice, community-based activities, and liberatory worldmaking.
Contributors: Jordyn Alderman, Leen Al-Fatafta, Meryl Altman, María Claudia André, Andrea N. Baldwin, Carolyn Beer, Luisa Bieri, Rebecca Dawson, Misty De Berry, Danielle M. DeMuth, Emily Fairchild, Sara Youngblood Gregory, Letizia Guglielmo, Jeremy Hall, K. Melchor Hall, Linh U. Hua, Christine Keating, Charlotte Meehan, Brayden Milam, Isis Nusair, Montserrat Pérez-Toribio, Andrea Putala, Ariella Rotramel, Ann Russo, Kimberly Sanchez, Barbara L. Shaw, M. Gabriela Torres, Ayana K. Weekley, and Sharon R. Wesoky
Contributor Bio
Isis Nusair is a professor of women’s and gender studies and international studies at Denison University. She is a coeditor of Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel and translator of Ever Since I Did Not Die Barbara L. Shaw is an associate professor and chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Allegheny College. She is a coeditor of Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader and Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, and coauthor of the forthcoming book, Act Now!
University of Illinois Press
9780252088797
Pub Date: 8/5/2025
$30.00
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424 Pages
19 black & white photographs
Social Science / Disability Series: Disability Histories
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Jenifer L. Barclay, Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, Jaipreet Virdi
Cripping the Archive questions the historical record's framing of disability across time and space, reflects on the disabled scholar's experience in the archive, and creates counter-archives by expanding our definition of an archive beyond the physical.
Interrogates how ableism shapes and limits archival collections and scholarly research -- how materials are collected, made available, and later interpreted by scholars.
Summary
How do we explain the conspicuous absence of disability from the histories we write? What forces and factors create this dynamic? How can disability be everywhere and nowhere, present and absent, and obvious and overlooked in both the historical record and historians’ interpretations of the past? Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy edit a collection of interdisciplinary essays that consider how and why physical, sensory, intellectual, and psychological disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. The contributors draw on the methodology and practice of cripping to uncover disability in contested archives and explore ways to build inclusive archives accountable to, and centered on, disabled people and disability justice. Throughout, they show ableness informing the politics of the archive as a physical space, a discriminatory record, and a collection of silences. An essential contribution to research methods and disability justice, Cripping the Archive offers a blueprint for intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches that bridge disability studies, history, and archival studies.
Jenifer L. Barclay is an associate professor of history at the University of Buffalo. She is the author of The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy is an associate professor of history at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean
University of Illinois Press
9780252089060
Pub Date: 1/6/2026
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256 Pages 3 maps; 7 charts Political Science / Political Economy
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Struggles for a Post-Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley
John Gaventa, Gabe Schwartzman
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In the face of climate change, the book highlights the challenges and struggles to create new futures for former coal communities
Tells the story of how the fossil fuel industry built and maintained its power, supported by the rise of right wing conservatism is highly relevant to the current political moment
While showing the devastating impact of mine closures on local communities and economies, Power and Just Transitions also show how people resist and fight for alternative futures in the midst of huge challenges.
Summary
Published in 1982, John Gaventa’s award-winning Power and Powerlessness examined the dominance of the absentee coal industry in Central Appalachia. Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman update the story through coal’s decline and into the present while focusing on how power relations and community mobilizing have changed and evolved during this era of transition. Their analysis tracks the impact on a place where a fossil fuel–based economy shaped political and social structures for over a century. As they show, new forms of power emerged while old ones remained, and both affected the popular struggle for a future that’s both just and more inclusive. Original and timely, Power and Just Transitions merges historical perspective with interviews and engagement to look at how coal’s decline impacted power and resistance in an Appalachian community.
Contributor Bio
John Gaventa is a professor and research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley Gabe Schwartzman is an assistant professor of geography and sustainability at the University of Tennessee and has been deeply engaged in community mobilization efforts in the Clear Fork Valley.
University of Illinois Press
9780252089145
Pub Date: 1/6/2026
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270 Pages
28 black & white photos; 1 table Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies
Series: New Black Studies Series
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A Critique of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cassandra Shepard
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This book maps the afterlife of disaster in New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina. What happens when the floodwaters subside, but the system that caused the disaster remains?
Tells the story of rebuilding Black life in a city shaped by settler colonialism. The post-Katrina rebuilding of New Orleans offers a case study in how settler colonialism doesn't vanish - it evolves.
Summary
Rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and during the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed perpetual disaster on New Orleans’ Black and Indigenous communities. Neoliberalism masked by the auspices of repair, progress, and inclusion reinforced the plight of the urban poor while exacerbating the racial and class inequalities that existed before the storm. Cassandra Shepard’s analysis draws on ideas of settler-colonialism to chart how depriving Black and Indigenous people of critical resources intensified the harm, violence, and death inherent in systems of colonization. As Shepard shows, the rhetoric of improvement allows coloniality to masquerade as rebuilding while white elites consolidate power, profit, and privilege. Displaced and disenfranchised people of color, meanwhile, experience the impact of racial-disaster capitalism, with the chaos surrounding Katrina and COVID-19 obscuring the for-profit economic, political, and social exploitation of non-white New Orleanians. Ambitious and provocative, Settler Colonialism is the Disaster refutes the myth of New Orleans’ presumptive revival by shining new light on the ongoing colonization project at its heart.
Contributor Bio
Cassandra Shepard is an assistant professor in the Department of African American and Diaspora Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.
University of Illinois Press
9780252089015
Pub Date: 11/25/2025
$32.00
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312 Pages
14 black & white photographs
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Series: Dissident Feminisms
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Annie Isabel Fukushima, K. Melchor Quick Hall
Decolonial Feminist Genealogies and Futures is a visionary framing of radical feminist praxis, rooted in a unique history. The edited anthology offers multiple methodological approaches that include participant observation, pláticas, critical participatory action research, spatial analysis, interviews, testimonio, grounded theory, and historical analysis.
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Gaza, recent events have demonstrated the implacability of settler colonialism and its racist underpinnings. Annie Isabel Fukushima and K. Melchor Quick Hall edit a visionary collection focused on radical struggles against these forces. The editors organize the essays in four thematic sections: subversive labor; spatialities and temporalities; resistance; and genealogies and feminist futures. Inspired by outside catalysts like sharing circles and poetry, the contributors challenge the boundaries of time and space that we imagine as constraints on labor and resistance. Their methodological approaches include participation observation, pláticas, critical participatory action research, spatial analysis, interviews, testimonio, grounded theory, and historical analysis. Interdisciplinary and diverse, Decolonial Feminist Genealogies and Futures draws on a unique history of thought and action to map a new generation of practices. Contributors: Esther O. Ajayi-Lowo, Ana Carolina Antunes, Xamuel Bañales, Azza Basarudin, Tina Beyene, Linda Carty, Elisa Contreras, Janice Cindy Gaudet, Lynn Hampton, Amanda Jurno, Eun-Jin Keish Kim, Shireen Keyl, Leece Lee-Oliver, Monique Lemos, Xochitl E. López Andrade, Tricia McGuire-Adams, Sylvia Mendoza Aviña, Akanksha Misra, Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval, Bruno Moreschi, Rachel Afi Quinn, K. Melchor Quick Hall, Angel Sutjipto, Miriam G. Valdovinos, and Lydia Zakel
Contributor Bio
Annie Isabel Fukushima is an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S. K. Melchor Quick Hall is a core faculty member in the school of leadership studies at Fielding Graduate University. She is the author of Naming a Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Writing in Darkness.
University of Illinois Press 9780915608478
Pub Date: 12/10/2024
$29.95
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384 Pages
33 black & white photographs Music / Genres & Styles Series: Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985 Geoffrey Himes
Summary
Geoffrey Himes explores a previously unnamed movement that helped shape modern country music: In-Law Country. It was a movement of outsiders who would become insiders. Weaving together biography and musical analysis, Himes shows how Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Guy Clark, and others changed the sounds and stories of country music forever.
Contributor Bio
Geoffrey Himes has won numerous awards for writing about music in the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, New York Times, No Depression, Downbeat, Paste, and many other publications since 1975. His book on Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A., was published in 2005. He has written liner notes for albums by Rosanne Cash, Merle Haggard, Marty Stuart, and more.
University of Illinois Press
9780915608393
Pub Date: 6/13/2023
$19.95
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224 Pages
45 black & white photographs
Music / Genres & Styles
Series: Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
David C. Morton, Charles K. Wolfe, Dom Flemons
Key Selling Points:
-Rerelease of a long out of print book
-Key history on a Black country music performer
-Nashville street will be renamed in DeFord Bailey's honor in May 2023
-The second release in new relationship with Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Summary
Includes a new foreword by musician Dom Flemons, forty-five illustrations, and a complete session discography.
A founding member of the Grand Ole Opry and the program’s first Black star, DeFord Bailey (1899–1982) was among the Opry’s most popular early performers. Known as the “Harmonica Wizard” for his virtuosity on the instrument, he was also a singer, guitarist, banjoist, and composer.
For decades following his departure from the Opry, Bailey’s story was shrouded in mystery. This meticulously researched biography, long out of print, tells the story of a pioneering Black star in early country music in rich and fascinating detail. The book’s original publication in 1991 helped pave the way for Bailey’s election to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
David C. Morton holds a B.A. in history from Auburn University and has completed the coursework required for a Ph.D. in history at Vanderbilt University. He retired after many years as executive director of the Reno (Nevada) Housing Authority. The late Charles K. Wolfe was professor of English and folklore studies at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of ten books about American music, and he served as editor of several more.
University of Illinois Press 9780915608454
Pub Date: 12/10/2024
$26.95
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370 Pages
150 black & white photographs Music / Genres & Styles Series: Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
The History of the Singing Cowboy
Douglas B. Green
Summary
Ranger Doug Green’s immensely popular history of Western Music!
A singing cowboy himself, Douglas B. Green is uniquely suited to write the story of the singing cowboy, from the early days of vaudeville and radio, through the heyday of movie westerns before World War II, to the current revival. He provides rich and careful analysis of the studio system that made Gene Autry and Roy Rogers famous, and he documents the role that country music and regional television stations played in carrying on the singing cowboy tradition after the war. Green’s story reveals how the imagery of the singing cowboy has become such a potent force that even now country musicians don cowboy hats to symbolically take part in the legend.
Contributor Bio
Douglas B. Green is a music historian and performer. As Ranger Doug (the Idol of American Youth), he founded Riders In The Sky, the premier Western group of the modern era.